Roberts v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted in the district court of Ponto-toc county upon an information charging him with having committed the crime of sodomy on or about the 29th day of November, 1933, upon the person of Dora McNeil, and in accordance with the verdict of the jury he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years. To reverse the judgment, he appeals.

The record shows that the defendant is a man of 69 years of age and has been blind for the past 12 years; that he has lived in Ada for more than 28 years, and for the past…